“The time has come for the film industry to step up and show the full diversity of the world that movie audiences are living in today,” GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis said at the time. “Films like ‘Moonlight’ prove there is a huge opportunity to not only tell LGBTQ stories worthy of Oscar gold, but to open the hearts and minds of audiences here and around the world in places where these stories can be a lifeline to the people who need it most.”

And the song pretty much sounds the same this year, with Ellis adding in her most recent statement that “it is time for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) stories to be included in this conversation in this movement.”

We’d agree, especially since, as GLAAD points out, 20 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 identify as LGBTQ+. To spark a change, the organization is committing itself to pushing the industry to hit a target of 20 percent of major film releases including LGBTQ+ characters by 2021. By 2024, they hope to see the percentage raise to 50.

There was a significant decrease in the number of LGBTQ-inclusive films distributed by major studios in 2017. There were NO transgender characters in any major studio release. Read our Studio Responsibility Index: https://t.co/OtecyLBgOEpic.twitter.com/ZG1BtnaXZR

It’s not unrealistic, especially since some of 2018’s most notable releases—including Love, Simon and Annihilation—”included central queer characters who have agency over their own stories.”

“With wildly successful films like Wonder Woman and Black Panther proving that audiences want to see diverse stories that haven’t been told before, there is simply no reason for major studios to have such low scores on the Studio Responsibility Index,” Ellis said regarding 2017’s numbers. “At a time when the entertainment industry is holding much needed discussions about inclusion, now is the time to ensure the industry takes meaningful action and incorporates LGBTQ stories and creators as among priorities areas for growing diversity.”